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"The Honeyball report tackles the differences in taxation of passenger cars between one European Union country and another, together with the resulting administrative and financial problems when people move to other countries. It advocates increasing the Annual Circulation Tax rather than the Registration Tax and, above all, systematising the fight against pollution by applying principles of harmonised taxation.
We do not feel at home with this method. Of course, we are disgusted by the absurd and socially unjust development of urban organisation and of the transport system and by its effects upon the environment. It is, however, particularly hypocritical to cause wage earners who purchase cars, including the most ordinary ones, to bear the penalties for pollution. Changing the transport system so that it is more efficient and less polluting means, in the first place, hugely extending public transport, drastically reducing the proportion of road transport by lorry in favour of less polluting and less dangerous forms of transport, and imposing stricter anti-pollution standards upon manufacturers. The change to the transport system should be funded from profits and from direct taxes that increase progressively on the basis of income. Because we reject the dissipation of responsibilities proposed by this report, we abstained from voting on the latter."@en1
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